project is finished!

5 different lace patterns add an open airy feel to this project. Reaching an almost 5ft by 3ft distance, it's small enough to keep the chill off your shoulders and light enough to give you privacy for something like breast feeding (and you can still see your wee one!)

approx:1130 yards
55x35”

(close to 5ft by 3 ft) I think I got carried away.lol
7/11/12 started
7/27/12 finished

these colors were chosen by the recipient. 

but yarn barf is what I do......

a while back I had a spinning wheel that I had to sell in order to meet rent....years later the hubbs gave the go ahead to invest in another wheel eventhough I have more yarn than brains......

While I'm waiting for my wheel, I've picked up a drop spindle (I have 2) to try & learn how to make yarn with one of these beauties. I wish I could learn how to do it this way.

I know it's not yarn yet......but I am determined to teach myself how.

I'm not the fastest learner, but there's no one here to teach me, so I will just wing it.

oh when oh when will it ever really be yarn?

fiber to play with, please?

some time ago I had to sell my wheel to help pay for rent & now I'm itching to spin again....yeah. again. And I have some drop spindles that were sent to me by a veryyyyyyyyyyyy dear friend Joyce...she sent them to me a few years ago and I've used them some......but I want to learn more about using a drop spindle and such.

if you have any fiber to sell or trade, let me know okay?

thanks!

update on 'shawl' (blanket) *pic heavy*

a friend of ours had a baby girl not too long ago and I'm working on this for her.....she chose the colors white/pink/brown and I'm loving how it's turning out as I knit it. You see in the pics above various stages of the work that I've been doing and the latest update is I've finished the center panel, lightly blocked it, tinked back the pink border to run the 'hugs and kisses' cables the other direction so that there are an even number of cables (makes sense to me). I still have a ways to go, but I'm getting there.

what's on your needles today?

heartfelt prayers to the victims and families of the Aurora shootings

I assume everyone in the world that has access to either TV or radio or newspapers or the internet has heard of THIS shooting.

My heart goes out to the victims and their families and prayers go up to the Heavens for them as well.

I was watching a news reporter interview the gentleman that just lost his daughter and she asked
"is she dead?"

yeah. Way to be classy. Couldn't you have asked it more gently? That to me seemed so callus for you to ask it that way directly to a man that lost his 6 year old daughter. I shudder every time it plays.

my husband found this article that discusses some of the questions that I know I've had on my mind relating to the craziness that is this James Holmes. I don't understand HOW he did it in the first place, but especially don't understand how he afforded to have all those things & to think that this guy acted alone......that's a lot of chaos for one man to unfold and I assume it was just one man (until I'm told differently by those in the know)......so how did he get there? How did this happen?

I would love to know what caused this 'laid back' (as he said in his apartment application) guy to turn into this nightmare...and how it went downhill so fast for him.

more pics of my Triangle Shawl...love!!

my blocking shawl

5'5" x 4'0"
(width x's height)
blocking on king size bed *and hanging over*